Australian Politics

MB has warned and warned and warned.

Another blow upside the head for Treasurer Chicken Chalmers.

Richard Marles is about as convincing as a poodle in No Man’s Land and Ukraine knows it: Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia says there has been no request for Australian soldiers to help train his country’s forces, warning such talk risks being a distraction from the need for extra weapons.

What is this garbage?

Talk about a government making no sense, or is that nonsense?

The Albanese Government will not make any changes to the legislated stage 3 personal income tax cuts package in its first Budget on 25 October.

This is amusing for all but those sent: Australian troops could be sent to Ukraine to help train the country’s armed forces following Russia’s “appalling” attack on Kyiv, Defence Minister Richard Marles has declared.

The headlines are finally catching up to MB with about an eight-month lag: The Australian wraps it up: “Next year using the current market prices, tariffs are going up a minimum 35 per cent,” Alinta chief executive Jeff Dimery told an energy conference in Sydney.

The Grattan Institute has released a report which shows that federal and state governments are spending nearly $450 million a year on advertising campaigns.

Han Yang is a former junior diplomat of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

This makes no sense at all: Sun Cable, the developers of what will be the world’s biggest solar and battery storage project, have named tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes as the company’s new chair, in the latest boost to the massive venture’s momentum.

The AFR reports that Treasurer Jim Chalmers will use a speech today to warn that the federal government will need to make some “difficult decisions” with its first Budget on 25 October.

Could we see an oil price blowoff at the worst possible time?

OPEC cut 2mb/d of output last night.

It doesn’t do to remember anything in the Australian political economy.

Resident Greens dill, Max Chandler-Mather, has doubled-down on his demand for a two-year rental freeze followed by a 2% cap every 24 months.

In Netflix’s darkly amusing series “How to become a tyrant” there are six steps: Seize power Crush your rivals Reign through terror Control the truth Create a new society Rule forever I will add a seventh: demonise an ethnicity.

We will eventually be forced into subsidies but they won’t be funded by lifting taxes on the energy cartels.

Research undertaken by Swinburne University shows that the general public’s confidence in the federal government has increased since Labor took office in late May.

This is what happens when you have no government worthy of the name to address market structure issues: The West Australian government is facing a coal supply crisis and could follow South32’s lead and turn to Indonesia for imports of the fossil fuel.